IANS - Story Shun Social Media to kill Loneliness Before it eliminates youPosted On: 09-Dec-2015

If you think that no other age group is more vulnerable to loneliness than the elderly, go check your backyard.

The mammoth rise of the internet and emergence of various social media platforms have left many young Indians - some as young as 14 - socially isolated, lonely and, eventually, in the grip of chronic depression that can take their lives.

Not just leading to suicidal tendencies, the feeling of being lonely can make you sick, very sick if not addressed clinically and socially well in time.